{"id":6085,"date":"2015-01-23T17:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T01:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:51:53","slug":"silencing-the-voices-of-the-faithful-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"Silencing the Voices of the Faithful in Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0Without People of Faith in Medicine, Who Will Defend the Vulnerable?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"author\">Denise Hunnell, MD<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2015 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/?utm_campaign=dailyhtml&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=dispatch\" target=\"_blank\">Zenit.org<\/a>) &#8211; Religious liberty provides for the free exercise of one\u2019s faith in every aspect of life. This freedom is far more extensive than merely having the freedom to attend the worship service of choice.\u00a0 Truly living one\u2019s faith means that family life, professional life, leisure activities, as well as spiritual practices are guided by the tenets of faith. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Every profession is vulnerable to this religious discrimination, but perhaps none more so than the medical profession. Health care workers are intimately involved with matters of life and death on a daily basis. Catholic teaching, in accord with natural law, professes that all human life has intrinsic dignity from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death and faithful Catholics seek to uphold this dignity in every aspect of their lives, including their professional activities. Catholic health care workers are increasingly challenged by a secular health care system that offers little or no protection for the unborn, the disabled, and the elderly, and has little regard for religious principles.[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/en\/articles\/silencing-the-voices-of-the-faithful-in-health-care\" target=\"_blank\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Without People of Faith in Medicine, Who Will Defend the Vulnerable? Denise Hunnell, MD WASHINGTON, D.C., January 23, 2015 (Zenit.org) &#8211; Religious liberty provides for the free exercise of one\u2019s faith in every aspect of life. This freedom is far more extensive than merely having the freedom to attend the worship service of choice.\u00a0 Truly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6085\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silencing the Voices of the Faithful in Health Care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5432,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,453,295,19],"tags":[1963],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-religion","category-religious-freedom","category-repression-of-conscience","tag-denise-hunnell"],"yoast_head":"\r\n<title>Silencing the Voices of the Faithful in Health Care - Protection of Conscience Project News<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=6085\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Silencing the Voices of the Faithful in Health Care - Protection of Conscience Project News\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Without People of Faith in Medicine, Who Will Defend the Vulnerable? 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